Pilot John International

Pilot John International (PJi) is an aviation supply and service company headquartered in Greenville, North Carolina, with a distribution and service centre in New Bern, NC. It was founded in July 2001 as Carolina GSE, opened its first service centre in 2012, built a new distribution and service centre in 2020, doubled it in 2022 and rebranded as Pilot John International in October 2022. The website says the company offers more than 100,000 products, serves customers in 144 countries and ships same day on orders placed before 2pm Eastern. John Werner is president and CEO.

Products

• Ground support equipment: tugs, jacks, hydraulic power units and ground power units from brands such as Tronair, Unitron, FoxCart, Motrec and StartPac
• Aircraft parts: batteries, engine mounts, lighting, tires, wheels and brakes
• Avionics, instruments, avionics test equipment and installation supplies
• Aircraft tooling from Champion, DMC, Kell-Strom, Alberth Aviation and Tronair, including borescopes and crimping tools
• Consumables (hydraulic fluids, engine oils, greases, deicing fluid), safety equipment and pilot supplies

The online store can be filtered by aircraft make and model. A PJi account lets customers keep equipment and tooling records, order calibration and service online, track quotes and orders and receive calibration due reminders.

Services

• GSE service and repair: routine maintenance, refurbishments, jack load testing, OEM replacement parts and a mobile GSE service team
• An ISO 17025 accredited calibration lab in New Bern, opened in October 2025, with online ordering and certificate downloads
• Rentals of GPUs, HPUs, aircraft jacks, avionics test sets, tugs and tooling
• Sell and trade programmes for used equipment, and financing

Cirrus parts and equipment

The shop-by-aircraft catalogue has a Cirrus section with a dedicated page for the Cirrus SR22 (pilotjohn.com/a/cirrus/sr22) listing parts, equipment and tooling for the type. The page summarises the SR22 generations (G1 to G6, the SR22TN turbo-normalised conversion and the SR22T with the Continental TSIO-550-K engine) and the engine families, and notes what that means for shops: jacks and pads matched to the Cirrus jacking points, CAPS repack and rocket replacement planning, TKS fluid handling, ground power units, and pitot-static and transponder test sets for Avidyne and Perspective avionics. Product listings on that page are filtered by category.

Contact

Email: hello@pilotjohn.com
Description from the company's website (October 2026). Not a Cirrus Aircraft authorized service center. Is this your company? Claim this page to add photos and keep your details up to date.